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Personally, I don't know anyone who would hire someone like you, who knows a little bit about lots of things. Most businesses want someone to join their team to

Personally, I don't know anyone who would hire someone like you, who knows a little bit about lots of things. Most businesses want someone to join their team to provide significant value without that value being overly-difficult to measure. Saying, "I can do pretty much anything you need but I'm not particularly good at any of it" makes you an undesirable candidate. Look at that list of skills you wrote down, pick one, and become passable at it - then you can start looking for jobs. Hope this helps! Good luck!

selmat 10y ago
> I don't know anyone who would hire someone like you, who knows a little bit about lots of things. Most businesses want someone to join their team to provide significant value without that value being overly-difficult to measure. Yeah...my current job is like that (this is irony)....we need specialist for technology x. You will be responsible for ABCD. First day in new job...you know what? We need someone who will handle y. Doesn't matter that you don't have so much skills with it. 6 months later....he is leaving and we need someone who will handover his duties. He is doing everything for everyone. But task are specialized and we dont have position for that. Something like highly specialized generalist (to be concrete: design, implementation of automated policies for config verification. Used Technologies: tcl, regexp, html, xml, perl for all kind of network devices from various vendors - multivendor support.) So i do bit of everything but nothing so deep. My customers are mainly internals - account managers responsible for green results of weekly audit. The same highly specialized bullshit was in my previous job - security team who provide multivendor support. You do everything but actually nothing in deep. At the end you have years of experiences in highly specialized business but dont know more than was required for your daily tasks plus something extra. And there is always what to learn. Same issue is with programming jobs and frameworks. Company A use framework X, company B use framework Y. After two years you change company. You have to learn new framework and in the meantime Framework A changed (litle bit overreacting) and you are another usless specialized generalist. So this not black-and-white (as many other things in this it business).

selmat 10y ago

> I don't know anyone who would hire someone like you, who knows a little bit about lots of things. Most businesses want someone to join their team to provide significant value without that value being overly-difficult to measure. Yeah...my current job is like that (this is irony)....we need specialist for technology x. You will be responsible for ABCD. First day in new job...you know what? We need someone who will handle y. Doesn't matter that you don't have so much skills with it. 6 months later....he is leaving and we need someone who will handover his duties. He is doing everything for everyone. But task are specialized and we dont have position for that. Something like highly specialized generalist (to be concrete: design, implementation of automated policies for config verification. Used Technologies: tcl, regexp, html, xml, perl for all kind of network devices from various vendors - multivendor support.) So i do bit of everything but nothing so deep. My customers are mainly internals - account managers responsible for green results of weekly audit. The same highly specialized bullshit was in my previous job - security team who provide multivendor support. You do everything but actually nothing in deep. At the end you have years of experiences in highly specialized business but dont know more than was required for your daily tasks plus something extra. And there is always what to learn. Same issue is with programming jobs and frameworks. Company A use framework X, company B use framework Y. After two years you change company. You have to learn new framework and in the meantime Framework A changed (litle bit overreacting) and you are another usless specialized generalist. So this not black-and-white (as many other things in this it business).